Eamonn McCann (b. 1943 Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish journalist, author, and political activist. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Activism, in a general sense can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change
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Life
McCann was born and has lived most of his life in Derry. He was educated at St. Columb's College in the city. Nobel Prize winners The school is one of the few schools in the world that can claim two Nobel laureates amongst its Alumni: Seamus Heaney
As a young man he was one of the original organizers of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( Cumann Chearta Sibhialta Thuaisceart Éireann) was an organisation which campaigned for Civil rights in Northern His political contemporaries included Bernadette Devlin, for whom he served as an election agent. Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 23 April 1947, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) also known as Bernadette Devlin McCann was highly critical of various other noted Catholic politicians in Derry, such as John Hume. John Hume (born 18 January 1937) is a former Politician in Northern Ireland, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party He personally witnessed and participated in many of the key events of the early part of the Troubles, including the Battle of the Bogside in August 1969 and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. The Battle of the Bogside was a very large communal Riot between the mostly unarmed residents of the Bogside area of Derry city in Northern Ireland allied Bloody Sunday (Domhnach na Fola is the term used to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26
Later he worked as a journalist for the Sunday World newspaper and contributed to the original In Dublin magazine among others. The Sunday World is an Irish Newspaper published by Sunday Newspapers Limited a division of Independent News and Media. He currently writes for the Belfast Telegraph and has for many years written a column for the Dublin-based Hot Press magazine. The Belfast Telegraph is a daily evening newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Independent News and Media. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Hot Press is a fortnightly Music and political Magazine founded in 1977 based in Dublin, Ireland. [1] He is a frequent commentator on the BBC, RTE and other media.
A Trotskyist and outspoken atheist, he is a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party in Ireland, and in recent Northern Ireland elections has stood as a candidate for the Socialist Environmental Alliance. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Atheism The Socialist Workers Party ( SWP) is an Irish Trotskyist Political party. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of The Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA is a minor Political party operating in Northern Ireland. [2] He is also Chair of his local branch of the NUJ, and vice-chairman of Derry Trades Council.
As a political activist, McCann has lent his support and considerable oratorial skills to many causes, including campaigns in support of abortion rights, immigrants and gay marriage. Same-sex marriage (also referred to as gay marriage) is a term for a legally or Socially recognized Marriage between two people of the same His journalistic work reflects his profound hostility to religion. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos
McCann was the partner of Mary Holland, the late journalist for The Observer, and The Irish Times. Mary Holland ( June 19, 1935 &ndash June 7, 2004) was a British Journalist who specialised in writing about Ireland The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. He has a daughter from that relationship, Kitty, who is now a journalist for The Irish Times, and a son, Luke, who is also a journalist. [3] Fellow SWP member and academic Goretti Horgan has been his partner since the mid 1980s and they have an adult daughter, Matty. Goretti Horgan (born 5 July in the 1950s is an Irish Socialist activist
In the 2002 film Bloody Sunday, McCann's character is played by the Irish actor Gerard Crossan. Bloody Sunday is a 2002 Television film about the 1972 " Bloody Sunday " shootings in Derry, Northern [4]
McCann was tried in Belfast in May/June 2008 for his actions as one of the Raytheon 9. The Raytheon 9 are a group of Anti-war activists from the Derry Anti-War Coalition who caused considerable damage to the Raytheon factory in Derry All defendants were acquitted except for McCann, who was found guilty of the theft of 2 computer discs. For this he received a 12 month conditional discharge. [5]
McCann is also a supporter of Derry City F.C.[6]
Books
His books include:
- War And An Irish Town (1973), an account of his upbringing in Derry and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the region
- War and Peace in Northern Ireland - a critique of the political situation in Northern Ireland, notable for its criticism of both nationalism and unionism
- Dear God - The Price Of Religion In Ireland, a radical debunking of Christianity
He has also edited two books on Bloody Sunday:
- Bloody Sunday: What Really Happened (1992)
- The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: The Families Speak Out (2005). Derry City Football Club ( Cumann Peile Chathair Dhoire, kʊmən̪ˠ pɛlʲə xahəɾʲ ɣɛɾʲə is an Irish football club based in Derry, Irish nationalism (Náisiúnachas Éireannach refers to political and sociological movements and sentiment that embodies a love for Irish ancestry, culture and language and Unionism in Ireland, is a belief in the desirability of a full constitutional and institutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain based on the terms and Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings
See also
References
- ^ McCann Column in Hot Press. List of Northern Irish writers This is a list of writers born in Northern Ireland.
- ^ Socialist Environmental Alliance Website.
- ^ Mary Holland Obituary in the Guardian, 9 June 2004; Mary Holland Obituary in the Independent, 10 June 2004.
- ^ IMDB entry for Bloody Sunday.
- ^ "Raytheon 6 cleared", Derry Journal, 11 June 2008 (accessed 2008-06-12)
- ^ Mahon, Eddie (1998). Derry City, Guildhall Press, p. 83.
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